Alfred Klotz

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Alfred Klotz (born June 15, 1874 in Zittau , † January 10, 1956 in Erlangen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Alfred Klotz attended the Royal High School in Leipzig from 1883 to 1892 , which he left with the school leaving certificate. He then studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig from 1892 and received his doctorate in 1896 under Otto Ribbeck , who, like Otto Immisch, strongly influenced him. In 1905 he went to the University of Strasbourg as a private lecturer and in 1911 was offered a professorship at the German Charles University in Prague , which he accepted. He followed another call to a chair in Erlangen on April 1, 1920. In the winter semester 1930/31 he was rector of the University of Erlangen and was retired in 1939 with the title of a secret government councilor, but remained a full professor and continued to give lectures in Latin.

On behalf of the managing director of Buchner Verlag, Wilhelm Ament , who tried to improve the poor order situation with ideologically adapted books, he wrote a pamphlet on races , but the pamphlet did not meet the requirements of the authorities and was a failure. On the other hand, in the summer of 1944 he drew the attention of the students at Erlangen University to the exodus of the Helvetii from their settlement areas as an example of an irresponsible and power-hungry leader instigated but catastrophically failed habitat war.

Honors

In 1944, Adolf Hitler awarded Klotz the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .

Fonts (selection)

  • Racial history and prehistory in the service of national education . Buchners Verlag, Bamberg 1934 (textbook for upper school, together with Rudolf Herbst)
  • Livy and his predecessors . Teubner, Leipzig 1940/41.
  • Studies on Valerius Maximus and the Exempla . CH Beck, Munich 1942.
  • History of Roman Literature . Schöningh, Würzburg 1947.
  • Appian's account of the Second Punic War: A preliminary investigation e.g. Source analysis d. 3rd decade d. Livy . Schöningh, Paderborn 1936.
  • Titus Maccius Plautus : Comedies . German by Alfred Klotz. Munich: Heimeran 1948.

literature

  • Klaus Stiewe :  Klotz, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 126 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gereon Becht-Jördens: Humanistic Education and War. On the spectrum of possibilities for the reception of antiquity in the face of war. Including: An unknown testimony to the intellectual resistance of the Caesar researcher Alfred Klotz. In: Wilhelm Kreutz, Hermann Wiegand (eds.): 200 years of unified Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim . Verlag Regionalkultur, Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-490-6 , pp. 135-164.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905
  2. ^ A b Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the third Reich: Bio-bibliographical manual. Akademie Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-05-004094-7 , p. 414.
  3. ↑ Otto Stählin: The seminar for classical philology at the university: Speech given at the celebration of its 150th anniversary on December 17, 1927 . Verlag von Palm & Enke, 1928, p. 48.
  4. ^ (Pro) rectors / presidents of the university. on: uni-erlangen.de
  5. ^ National and international currents in Roman literature. Speech given on the occasion of the takeover of the rectorate on November 4, 1930 by Alfred Klotz. Erlangen 1931.
  6. ^ Indo-European Society: Kratylos: Critical Report and Review Organ For Indo-European and General Linguistics . O. Harrassowitz, 1956, p. 190.
  7. ↑ Gnomon. Critical journal for all of classical antiquity . 1939, Volume 15, p. 592.
  8. ↑ Directory of people and lectures SS 1949, p. 44.
  9. ^ Hartmut Lehmann, Otto Gerhard Oexle: National Socialism in the Cultural Studies. 1. Subjects - milieus - careers . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, ISBN 3-525-35198-4 , p. 334.
  10. ↑ cf. Gereon Becht-Jördens: Humanistic Education and War (see under literature) pp. 145–152.
  11. ↑ Gnomon. Critical journal for all of classical antiquity . 1944, volume 20, p. 224.
personal data
SURNAME Klotz, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klotz, Alfredus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1956
Place of death gain